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Damien Agut-Labordère, Miguel John Versluys, Canonisation as innovation: anchoring cultural formation in the first millennium BCE. Euhormos: Greco-Roman studies in anchoring innovation, 3. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2022. Pp. 320. ISBN 9789004520257.
Walter Ameling, Centre and periphery: working with the inscriptions of Iudaea/Palaestina. Antiquitas, 1.76. Bonn: Habelt Verlag, 2022. Pp. xii, 205. ISBN 9783774943612.
Michael Anderson, Space, movement, and visibility in Pompeian houses. Studies in Roman space and urbanism. Abingdon: Routledge, 2023. Pp. 276. ISBN 9781472485953.
Rodney Ast, Tino Licht, Julia Lougovaya, Uniformity and regionalism in Latin writing culture of the first millennium C.E. Philippika, 162. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2022. Pp. x, 220. ISBN 9783447118880.
Christoph Auffarth, Opfer: eine europäische Religionsgeschichte. Theologische Bibliothek, 8. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2022. Pp. 252. ISBN 9783525554654.
Dirk Baltzly, Michael Share, Hermias: on Plato Phaedrus 245E-257C. Ancient commentators on Aristotle. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. Pp. 336. ISBN 9781350051928.
Emilia A. Barbiero, Letters in Plautus: writing between the lines. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. 300. ISBN 9781009168519.
Ralf Becks, Troia VI und VII: Stratigraphie, Architektur, Befunde. Studia Troica, 12. Bonn: Habelt Verlag, 2022. Pp. xii 488. ISBN 9783774943360.
Malcolm Bell, Morgantina studies VII: the city plan and political agora. Results of the excavations conducted by Princeton University, the University of Illinois, and the University of Virginia. Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, 2022. Pp. 444. ISBN 9783752000214.
Stephan Bender, Stefan Pfahl, Kasserollen mit militärischen Inschriften. Bonn: Habelt Verlag, 2022. Pp. x, 98. ISBN 9783774943643.
Emmanuel Bermon, La correspondance avec Nebridius (lettres 3-14): texte latin et traduction française avec un commentaire. Philosophia antiqua, 165. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2022. Pp. x, 518. ISBN 9789004512504.
Neil Bernstein, The complete works of Claudian: translated with an introduction and notes. Routledge later Latin poetry. Abingdon; New York: Routledge, 2023. Pp. 444. ISBN 9781032416786.
Simone Beta, La donna che sconfigge la guerra: Lisistrata racconta la sua storia. Quality paperbacks, 631. Roma: Carocci Editore, 2022. Pp. 244. ISBN 9788829012268.
Michael Blömer, Margherita Facella, Dülük Baba Tepesi II: inscriptions and sculptures from the sanctuary of Jupiter Dolichenus. Asia Minor Studien, 101. Bonn: Habelt Verlag, 2022. Pp. xi, 242. ISBN 9783774943322.
Marc Bouiron, Stéphane de Byzance. Les Ethniques comme source historique: l’exemple de l’Europe occidentale. Bibliothèque de l’antiquité tardive, 40. Turnhout: Brepols, 2022. Pp. xii, 810. ISBN 9782503593814.
Evelien Bracke, Classics at primary school: a tool for social justice. Classics in and out of the academy. Abingdon; New York: Routledge, 2023. Pp. xvi, 132. ISBN 9781032135359.
Scott Bradbury, David Moncur, Letters of Libanius from the age of Theodosius. Translated texts for historians, 82. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2023. Pp. 480. ISBN 9781802076837.
David Brakke, David M. Gwynn, The festal letters of Athanasius of Alexandria, with the festal index and the Historia Acephala. Translated texts for historians, 81. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2022. Pp. viii, 347. ISBN 9781802076820.
T. Corey Brennan, The fasces: a history of ancient Rome’s most dangerous political symbol. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. Pp. xii, 291. ISBN 9780197644881.
Vera Calchi, The theology of the Epinomis. Issues in ancient philosophy. Abingdon; New York: Routledge, 2023. Pp. 224. ISBN 9780367683214.
Roksana Chowaniec, Marta Fituła, The archaeology of urban life in the ancient Akrai/Acrae, Sicily. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2022. Pp. vi, 318. ISBN 9783447118620.
Jean Christianidis, Jeffrey Oaks, The Arithmetica of Diophantus: a complete translation and commentary. Scientific writings from the ancient and medieval world. Abingdon; New York: Routledge, 2023. Pp. xiv, 876. ISBN 9781138046351.
Dee L. Clayman, Callimachus volumes I-III. Loeb classical library 421, 129, and 550. Cambridge; London: Harvard University Press, 2022. Pp. 1520. ISBN 9780674997349.
Inbal Cohen-Taber, Wisdom and beauty in Plato’s Charmides. Eugene: Wipf and Stock, 2022. Pp. 170. ISBN 9781666701784.
Charles H. Cosgrove, Music at social meals in Greek and Roman antiquity: from the archaic period to the age of Augustine. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. xv, 442. ISBN 9781009161046.
Sylvie David, De Cadmos à Créon: de la Thèbes mythique à la Thèbes tragique. Institut des sciences et techniques de l’antiquité. Paris: Presses Universitaires de Franche-Comté, 2023. Pp. 400. ISBN 9782848678603.
Edwin J. de Sterke, Das Maß des Menschen: Platons Antwort an Protagoras im Theaitetos und im Protagoras. Brill’s Plato studies, 7. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2022. Pp. 394. ISBN 9789004471085.
Peter Deubner, Der Schilfmaler: ein Meister der polychromen Vasenmalerei. Bonn: Habelt Verlag, 2022. Pp. 128. ISBN 9783774943711.
Jane Draycott, Prosthetics and assistive technology in ancient Greece and Rome. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. 288. ISBN 9781009168397.
Laure Dussubieux, Heather Walder, The elemental analysis of glass beads: technology, chronology and exchange. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2022. Pp. 392. ISBN 9789462703384.
Werner Eck, Federico Santangelo, Konrad Vössing, Emperor, army, and society: studies in Roman imperial history for Anthony R. Birley. Antiquitas, 1.77. Bonn: Habelt Verlag, 2022. Pp. xiii, 506. ISBN 9783774943605.
Anna Everett Beek, Ovid Fasti: books I-III. Aris & Phillips classical texts. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2023. Pp. 272. ISBN 9781802077285.
Verena Fercho, Die stadtrömische supplicatio in republikanischer Zeit: Formierungen eines Ritualkomplexes. Studien zur alten Geschichte, 35. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2023. Pp. 313. ISBN 9783949189487.
Leonardo Fiorentini, Kratinos frr. 218-298. Fragmenta comica, 3.5. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2022. Pp. 304. ISBN 9783949189609.
Ursula Gärtner, Lukas Spielhofer, Ancient fables – sour grapes? New approaches. Spudasmata, 195. Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag, 2022. Pp. 370. ISBN 9783487163123.
Hans-Joachim Gehrke, Raymond Geuss, The Greeks and their histories: myth, history, and society. Classical scholarship in translation. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. 180. ISBN 9781316519783.
James Gersbach, The war cry in the Graeco-Roman world. Routledge monographs in classical studies. Abingdon; New York: Routledge, 2023. Pp. 168. ISBN 9781032248585.
Elena Ghisellini, Ritratti privati greci nell’Egitto tolemaico. Annuario della Scuola Archeologica di Atene e delle Missioni Italiane in Oriente, supplemento 11. Florence: All’Insegna del Giglio, 2022. Pp. 244. ISBN 9789609559300.
Brenda Griffith-Williams, Greek orators VIII: Isaeus orations 1, 2, 4 and 6. Aris & Phillips classical texts. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2023. Pp. 256. ISBN 9781802077131.
Alessia Grillone, La traduzione latina del Nicocles isocrateo di Guarino Veronese: introduzione, edizione critica e commento. Beiträge zur Altertumskunde, 408. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2023. Pp. xviii, 296. ISBN 9783110791167.
Miriam J. Groen-Vallinga, Work and labour in the cities of Roman Italy. Liverpool studies in ancient history. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2022. Pp. 368. ISBN 9781802077599.
Dimitri Gutas, Why translate science? Documents from antiquity to the 16th century in the historical West (Bactria to the Atlantic). Handbook of Oriental studies. Section one: the Near and Middle East, 160. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2022. Pp. ix, 764. ISBN 9789004472631.
Markus Hafner, Robert Porod, Über Trauer und den richtigen Umgang mit ihr Lukian, De luctu. Scripta antiquitatis posterioris ad ethicam religionemque pertinentia, 42. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2022. Pp. xii, 248. ISBN 9783161618994.
Simon J. Joseph, A social history of Christian origins: the rejected Jesus. Routledge studies in the early Christian world. Abingdon; New York: Routledge, 2023. Pp. 248. ISBN 9781032288499.
Andrea Jördens, Griechische Papyri aus der Sammlung des Louvre (P. Louvre III). Papyrologische Texte und Abhandlungen, 47. Bonn: Habelt Verlag, 2022. Pp. xxii, 436. ISBN 9783774943506.
Efimia D. Karakantza, Antigone. Gods and heroes of the ancient world. Abingdon; New York: Routledge, 2023. Pp. xii, 235. ISBN 9781138347823.
Lorenzo Kosmopoulos, Tuscanicae dispositiones sive opera dorica: architetture doricizzanti in Italia centro-meridionale. Bullettino della commissione archeologica comunale di Roma. Supplementi, 29. Roma: “L’Erma” di Bretschneider, 2022. Pp. 384. ISBN 9788891326805.
Stuart Lasine, Divine envy, jealousy, and vengefulness in ancient Israel and Greece. London; New York: Routledge, 2023. Pp. 214. ISBN 9781032261799.
Myles Lavan, Daniel Jew, Bart Danon, The uncertain past: probability in ancient history. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. 348. ISBN 9781009100656.
Henry MacAdam, Duncan Cooper, The Gladiators vs. Spartacus: dueling productions in blacklist Hollywood. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2020. 2 vols. Pp. 1081. ISBN 9781527556997.
Samantha Masters, Imkhitha Nzungu, Grant Parker, (u)Mzantsi classics: dialogues in decolonisation from southern Africa. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2023. Pp. vi, 274. ISBN 9781802077469.
Detlef Melsbach, Die pagane Theologie des Philosophen Salustios. Scripta antiquitatis posterioris ad ethicam religionemque pertinentia, 41. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2022. Pp. xi, 217. ISBN 9783161576676.
Anne-Sophie Meyer, Naturphänomene in Lucans Bellum civile. Schweizerische Beiträge zur Altertumswissenschaft, 55. Basel; Berlin: Schwabe Verlag, 2023. Pp. 274. ISBN 9783796546099.
Jana Mikulová, Evolution of direct discourse marking from classical to late Latin. The language of classical literature, 37. Leiden: Brill, 2022. Pp. 157. ISBN 9789004525009.
Harry Morgan, Music, politics and society in ancient Rome. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. xiii, 284. ISBN 9781009232333.
Henrik Mouritsen, The Roman elite and the end of the Republic: the boni, the nobles and Cicero. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. vii, 322. ISBN 9781009180658.
Jason A. Myers, Paul, the apostle of obedience: reading obedience in Romans. Library of New Testament studies, 668. London; New York: Bloomsbury, 2022. Pp. xviii, 246. ISBN 9780567705839.
Jenifer Neils, Shannon M. Dunn, Hippos: the horse in ancient Athens. Athens: American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 2022. Pp. 288. ISBN 9789609994569.
S. Douglas Olson, Eric Cullhed, Eustathius of Thessalonica, Commentary on the Odyssey, volume I: preface and commentary on rhapsodies 1-4. Leiden: Brill, 2022. Pp. 928. ISBN 9789004527355.
S. Douglas Olson, Antiphanes frr. 1-100. Fragmenta Comica, 19.1. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2023. Pp. 402. ISBN 9783949189630.
James F. Osborne, The Syro-Anatolian city-states: an Iron Age culture. Oxford studies in the archaeology of ancient states. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. xi, 275. ISBN 9780199315833.
Lex Paulson, Cicero and the people’s will: philosophy and power at the end of the Roman Republic. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. xv, 269. ISBN 9781316514115.
Stefanie Peintner, Gott im Bild: Eidôlon – Studien zur Herkunft und Verwendung des Begriffes für das Götterbild der Septuaginta. The Septuagint in its ancient context, 2. Turnhout: Brepols, 2022. Pp. 290. ISBN 9782503596112.
Andrew J. Pottenger, Power and rhetoric in the ecclesiastical correspondence of Constantine the Great. Routledge monographs in classical studies. Abingdon; New York: Routledge, 2023. Pp. xiii, 260. ISBN 9781032105154.
Jonah Radding, Poetry and the polis in Euripidean tragedy. Hellenic studies series, 95. Washington D.C.: Center for Hellenic Studies, 2022. Pp. 226. ISBN 9780674278530.
Paul Roche, Dracontius’ Orestes. Routledge later Latin poetry. Abingdon; New York: Routledge, 2023. Pp. vii, 133. ISBN 9781032131269.
George Rodosthenous, Angeliki Poulou, Greek tragedy and the digital. London; New York: Bloomsbury, 2023. Pp. x, 230. ISBN 9781350185852.
Robert A. Rohland, Carpe diem: the poetics of presence in Greek and Latin literature. Cambridge classical studies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. 320. ISBN 9781316510827.
Hanna M. Roisman, Euripides: Andromache. Companions to Greek and Roman tragedy. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. Pp. 176. ISBN 9781350256262.
Sophia Rosenfeld, Peter T. Struck, A cultural history of ideas. The cultural histories series. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. 6 vol. Pp. 1728. ISBN 9781350007550.
Jonathan Rowlands, The metaphysics of historical Jesus research: a prolegomenon to a future quest for the historical Jesus. London: Routledge, 2023. Pp. xvi, 256. ISBN 9781032332826.
Paolo Felice Sacchi, Marco Formisano, Epitomic writing in late antiquity and beyond: forms of unabridged writing. Sera tela: studies in late antique literature and its reception. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. Pp. 352. ISBN 9781350281936.
Giampiero Scafoglio, Fabrice Wendling, Romaniser la foi chrétienne? La poésie latine de l’antiquité tardive entre tradition classique et inspiration chrétienne. Collection d’études médiévales de Nice, 20. Turnhout: Brepols, 2022. Pp. 255. ISBN 9782503600871.
Giulia Scalas, La Théorie épicurienne du vivant: l’âme avec le corps. Les anciens et les modernes – études de philosophie, 54. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2023. Pp. 490. ISBN 9782406141372.
Sarah M. Schellinger, Nubia: lost civilizations. London: Reaktion Books, 2022. Pp. 208. ISBN 9781789146592.
Camille Semenzato, Lucius Hartmann, Von der Antike begeistert! Philologie, Philosophie, Religion und Politik durch drei Jahrtausende. Basel; Berlin: Schwabe Verlag, 2022. Pp. 597. ISBN 9783796546600.
Warren S. Smith, Religion and Apuleius’ Golden Ass: the sacred ass. Routledge monographs in classical studies. Abingdon; New York: Routledge, 2023. Pp. 208. ISBN 9781032192802.
Giuseppe Solaro, Socrate e i grandi nuotatori di Delo. Nuovi saggi, 121. Rome; Pisa: Fabrizio Serra, 2022. Pp. 64. ISBN 9788833154510.
Claudio Sorrentino, Gli animali e le offerte rituali nell’area santuariale sud di Pyrgi. Rome; Pisa: Fabrizio Serra, 2022. Pp. 152. ISBN 9788833154091.
Christopher D. Stanley, Paul and Asklepios: the Greco-Roman quest for healing and the apostolic mission. Library of New Testament studies, 639. London; New York: Bloomsbury, 2022. Pp. 253. ISBN 9780567696557.
Justin David Strong, The fables of Jesus in the Gospel of Luke: a new foundation for the study of parables. Studies in cultural contexts of the Bible, 5. Paderborn: Brill, 2021. Pp. xvii, 629. ISBN 9783506760654.
Mary C. Sturgeon, Corinth. The gymnasium area: sculpture. Corinth, 23.1. Athens; Princeton: American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 2022. Pp. 232. ISBN 9780876610244.
David Stuttard, Looking at Persians. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. Pp. 256. ISBN 9781350227927.
Gudrun Styhler-Aydin, Der Zuschauerraum des Theaters von Ephesos: Baubefund und architekturhistorische Analyse. Forschungen in Ephesos, 2.2. Vienna: Verlag der österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2022. Pp. 248. ISBN 9783700182689.
Daniela P. Taormina, Plotin Traité 41: sur la sensation et la mémoire. Bibliotheque des textes philosophiques. Paris: Vrin, 2022. Pp. 304. ISBN 9782711630301.
Mareike Tonisch, Omnia Romae cum pretio: Löhne, Preise und Werte im römischen Reich. Veröffentlichungen des Instituts für Numismatik und Geldgeschichte der Universität Wien, 25. Vienna: Österreichische Forschungsgesellschaft für Numismatik, 2022. Pp. 382. ISBN 9783950426847.
Ken Tully, Pamela D. Johnston, The hagiography of Saint Abercius: introduction, texts, and translations. Abingdon; New York: Routledge, 2023. Pp. viii, 347. ISBN 9781032140308.
Fabio Tutrone, Healing grief: a commentary on Seneca’s Consolatio ad Marciam. CICERO: studies on Roman thought and its reception, 6. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2022. Pp. x, 365. ISBN 9783111007427.
Fabrizio Vistoli, Scritti per il centenario (1920-2020). Atti e memorie della Società Magna Grecia, quinta serie, 6. Pisa; Roma: Fabrizio Serra, 2022. Pp. 288. ISBN 9788833154152.
José Watanabe, Cristina Pérez Díaz, Antígona: a bilingual edition with critical essays. Classics and the postcolonial. Abingdon; New York: Routledge, 2023. Pp. xii, 157. ISBN 9780367713386.
Gareth Williams, On Ovid’s Metamorphoses. Core knowledge. New York: Columbia University Press, 2022. Pp. 192. ISBN 9780231200707.
Anja Wolkenhauer, Johannes Helmrath, Ägypten übersetzen: fremde Schrift als Imaginationsraum europäischer Kulturen. Wolfenbütteler Forschungen, 173. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2022. Pp. 252. ISBN 9783447118774.
Fabio Zampieri, Sabino Illiceto, The heart in antiquity: a journey through Egypt, Mesopotamia, India, China, pre-Hispanic America, and Greece. Storia della medicina, 6. Rome: “L’Erma” di Bretschneider, 2022. Pp. 456. ISBN 9788891327826.
Giuseppe Zanetto, Delfi e Apollo nella letteratura greca. Seminari. Consulta universitaria di greco, 5. Rome; Pisa: Fabrizio Serra, 2022. Pp. 224. ISBN 9788833154275.
Diego Zucca, New explorations in Plato’s Theaetetus: belief, knowledge, ontology, reception. Brill’s Plato studies, 10. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2022. Pp. xiv, 373. ISBN 9789004516021.
Ferdinando Zuccotti, Paelex: note sulle unioni coniugali in Roma arcaica. Collana della rivista di diritto romano. Milan: LED Edizioni, 2022. Pp. 156. ISBN 9788855130905.